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At Mobile World Congress 2011, Visa bet big on paying by phone. The plan, the security debate -- and how the mobile-wallet prediction played out.

In praise of the rain check day: grey skies, cancelled plans, and the rare gift of unstructured time. Why bad weather restores the mind.

In February 2011, Rajasthan braced for Tom Cruise and Salma Hayek. What the announcement promised -- and what actually got filmed.

Valentine's Day is a floor, not a ceiling. What actually sustains love: appreciation, attention, repair, and affection -- practiced every day.

Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Body promised rapid fat loss through self-experiment. What the 2010 bestseller got right -- and where to be cautious.

Beyond romance: why the quality of your relationships -- with parents, children, friends, colleagues -- predicts the quality of your life.

Three years after Aarushi Talwar's murder, the CBI named her father a suspect and a court summoned both parents. The case that broke India's faith.

Laneway street art, flat whites, and 100,000 voices at the MCG: a travel postcard from Melbourne, the city that needs no spotlight.

In 2011, IIT-Bombay bid for a New York campus under Bloomberg's Applied Sciences NYC plan -- the moment India's top engineering school went global.

Five pounds in a week sounds tempting before Valentine's Day. Here's what that weight actually is -- and what works instead.

In January 2011, Oprah Winfrey revealed a half-sister, Patricia, she never knew existed -- one of the defining moments of her show's final season.

When care turns into control: why mothering your husband backfires, and how to keep the partnership equal without losing the tenderness.

Weight loss requires eating less than you burn — but that fact helps no one. What actually determines whether the weight stays off.

Ten gloriously over-the-top Valentine's Day getaway ideas, from Venice in carnival season to Udaipur's lake palaces to the northern lights of Iceland.

Why do so many men forget Valentine's Day? Memory, marketing, and the mind-reading trap -- and the one conversation that fixes it.

John Wade Agan of Tampa survived a lightning strike through his corded phone -- the latest chapter in a life of robberies, a stabbing, and snakebites.

An Ohio mother spent ten days in jail for using her father's address to send her daughters to a better school. The case that exposed America's

On Jan 27, 2011, the government told the Supreme Court the palmolein chargesheet against CVC P.J. Thomas never reached his selectors. Sushma Swaraj disagreed.

On January 27, 2011, Obama answered a YouTube-submitted question on Egypt's internet crackdown -- an early moment of social media as presidential diplomacy.

On January 25, 2011, the Day of Rage brought tens of thousands of Egyptians into the streets. How Tunisia lit the fuse under Mubarak's 30-year rule.